Clothes-pounder



L. STUDY.

ULOTHES POUNDER.

Patented Oct. 11, 1881' UNITED STATES" PATENT OFFICE.

LEONARD STUDY, OF PLUM HOLLOW, IOWA.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,232, dated October 11, 1881.

Application filed February 23, 1881. (ModeL) To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD STUDY, of Plum Hollow, in the State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Founders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of this invention relates to elothes-pounders; and it consists in the teatures of construction and combination hereinafter described, and spec fically designated in the claim.

In connection with myinve'ntion I have shown and described means especially adapted for operating the same.

In the drawings, Figure l is a sectional view of a portion of a wash-tub .with my improved elothes-pounder and auxiliaries. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the under side of the pounder.

The letter A indicates a coneshaped shell or casing, which is provided with a central tubular socket, a, connected with the cone-shaped casing by a series of vertical partitions, B B. A disk-shaped valve, 0, is fitted loosely upon this socket above the casing A of the pounder, and is arranged to have a limited vertical play between the latter and aunt or sleeve, D, which is fitted upon the said tubular socket.

D indicates the vertical stem of a handle, inserted into the tubular socket a, the handle E upon said stern being preferably a cross-bar adapted to be grasped by the hand of the operator.

F indicates a vertical rod, having at its lower end a clip, G, whichis secured by a setscrew, G, to the edge of the wash-tub. The

with the ponnder by its suction.

upper end of this rod is bent so as to extend over the center, or nearly over the center, of

the tub, and a spiral spring, H, is arranged to connect the upper end of this rod with the bandle of the pounder. As aconvenient means for efieoting this connection, the rod is formed with a hook at. its upper end, which engages an eye of the spring, and an eye or ring, with which a hook at the lower end of the spring engages, isconnected with the handle. It is obvious, however, that other means than those shown may be employed for making the con nection between said parts.

When the ponnder is forced down through the watt-r the valve will rise, and thus allow air to pass out through the top of the pounder, whereby all splashing will be avoided. When, however, the pounder is raised the valve will be seated, by reason of a'mospheric pressure upon it, and hence the clothes will he raised In raising the pounder the retractile power of the coiled spring will be found to materially assist the operator, and thereby render the operation much easier than if no spring were employed.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-.

The combination, in a clothes-pounder, of the cone-shaped easing A, having an open top and February, 1881.

LEONARD STUDY.

Witnesses:

J. J. MCCARTHY, HUGH MONAHAN. 

